The Venus, Rae, Master
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Massachusetts. The following were the facts of the case, as stated by .Washington, J., in delivering the opinion of the court. This is the case of a vessel which sailed from Great Britain, with a cargo belonging to the respective claimants, as was contended', before the declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain was or could have been known by the shippers.
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Appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Massachusetts. The following were the facts of the case, as stated by .Washington, J., in delivering the opinion of the court. This is the case of a vessel which sailed from Great Britain, with a cargo belonging to the respective claimants, as was contended', before the declaration of war by the United States against Great Britain was or could have been known by the shippers. She sailed from Liverpool, on the 4th of July 1812, under a British license, for the port of New York, and was captured, on the 6th of August 1812, by the…
1Dissent
Marshall, Ch. J.
(dissenting.) — I entirely concur in so much of the opinion delivered in this case, as attaches a hostile character to the property of an American citizen continuing, after the declaration of war, to reside and trade in the country of the enemy ; and I subscribe implicitly to the reasoning urged in its support. But from so much of that opinion as subjects to confiscation the property of a citizen, shipped before a knowledge of the war, and which disallows the defence founded on an intention to change his domicil and to return to the United States, manifested in a sufficient…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ginnon v. New York & Harlem RailroadThe Superior Court of New York City · 1864